Making the Chinese Mexican Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands

Name: Making the Chinese Mexican Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands
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ISBN: 9780804788625

ISBN-10: 0804788626

ISBN-13: 9780804788625

Edition: 2012

Authors: Grace Delgado

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Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Navigating the interlocking global and local systems of migration that underlay Chinese borderlands communities, the author situates the often-paradoxical existence of these communities within the turbulence of exclusionary nationalisms.The world of Chinese fronterizos (borderlanders) was shaped by the convergence of trans-Pacific networks and local arrangements, against a backdrop of national…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on Language Use


Introduction: Nations, Borders, and History



From Global to Local: Chinese Migration Networks into the Americas



Of Kith and Kin: Chinese and Mexican Relationships in Everyday Meaning



Traversing the Line: Border Crossers and Alien Smugglers



The First Anti-Chinese Campaign in the Time of Revolution



Myriad Pathways and Common Bonds



Por la Patria y por la Raza (For the Fatherland and for the Race): Sinophobia and the Rise of Postrevolutionary Mexican Nationalism


Epilogue


Abbreviations


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index